sullen - Story 143015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware grated on Ben's nerves. His older sister, Sarah, a vibrant, artistic soul, had declared her newfound faith in Islam. The celebration dinner, meant to be a joyous occasion, felt like a forced performance.

He barely touched his food. His jaw was clenched, his fingers tapping an incessant rhythm against the table. He found himself avoiding his sister's eye, unable to meet her gaze and feign enthusiasm.

"So, Sarah," his father began, attempting a jovial tone. "How did you come to this decision?" Ben tuned out the conversation, the cheerful chatter suddenly grating, and felt a strange pressure building behind his eyes.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216